New submission from shadowadler:
I discovered this while messing about with an unrelated idea, but the issue is
that if you inherit explicitly from object, you get different behaviour than
when you inherit implicitly. This is duplicated from my SO answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1238606/is-it-necessary-or-useful-to-inherit-from-pythons-object-in-python-3-x/45893772#45893772
If you explicitly inherit from object, what you are actually doing is
inheriting from builtins.object regardless of what that points to at the time.
Therefore, I could have some (very wacky) module which overrides object for
some reason. We'll call this first module "newobj.py":
import builtins
old_object = builtins.object # otherwise cyclic dependencies
class new_object(old_object):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(new_object, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.greeting = "Hello World!"
builtins.object = new_object #overrides the default object
Then in some other file ("klasses.py"):
class Greeter(object):
pass
class NonGreeter:
pass
Then in a third file (which we can actually run):
import newobj, klasses # This order matters!
greeter = klasses.Greeter()
print(greeter.greeting) # prints the greeting in the new __init__
non_greeter = NonGreeter()
print(non_greeter.greeting) # throws an attribute error
So you can see that, in the case where it is explicitly inheriting from object,
we get a different behaviour than where you allow the implicit inheritance.
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messages: 300865
nosy: shadowadler
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistent behaviours with explicit and implicit inheritance from
object
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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